1. Introduction
Several mathematical models for heat transport and thermal waves in solids and thermoelastic materials have been created by researchers. However, not all of these models are accurate because obtaining a finite progress rate of mechanical and thermal waves for the experimental effects is one of the best model parameters. We will look at experimental models that are close to laboratory findings and that are consistent with the physical behavior of thermoelastic material as well as try to include new information.
Chen and Gurtin proposed the thermoelasticity theory based on two different temperatures: conductive and dynamic temperatures. Differences are according to the amount of heat supply between these two types of temperatures [
1]. Warren and Chen looked at how waves propagate under the notion of a two-temperature framework [
2]. However, this hypothesis did not change until Youssef modified this hypothesis and presented the two-temperature model of general thermoelasticity [
3]. Youssef co-operated with other authors and used this model in many applications [
4,
5,
6]. Youssef and El-Bary reported that the classical generalized two-temperature thermoelectricity model does not provide a given speed of thermal wave propagation [
7]. This model was then modified by Youssef and El-Bary and was developed into a new two-temperature model based on the various laws of heat conduction, which are known as generalized hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity [
7,
8,
9]. Youssef suggested the difference between the conductive temperature acceleration and the dynamic temperature acceleration during the material transition is proportional to the heat supply. Within this model, the speed of thermal wave propagation is reduced [
7]. Hobiny [
10] applied the hyperbolic two-temperature model without dissipating the energy on the photothermal interaction in a semiconducting medium. Alshehri and Lotfy studied a theoretical novel model of generalized photo-thermoelasticity and a hyperbolic two-temperature theory [
11]. Abbas et al. investigated photo–thermal–elastic interactions in an unbounded semiconductor media containing a cylindrical hole under a hyperbolic two-temperature model [
12]. Youssef solved some applications of an infinite thermoelastic spherical medium subjected to a moving heat source, fractional strain, rotation, and mechanical damage [
13,
14,
15].
For the isotropic damage, the total effective stresses takes the form [
16]:
where in the undamaged material,
are the stress tensor components. The variable of mechanical damage may be represented in many ways. We consider an area element
with unit normal vector
n in a cross-section of the damaged body. Hence, the area of the defects in this element is given by
, and the total amount of the damage
can be obtained by the area fraction as follows [
16]:
Hence, represents the undamaged material, and formally represents the complete full damage of the material. In real materials, processes take place at values .
The description of the damage mechanics in Equation (2) has been published in many applications and models [
17,
18,
19,
20,
21].
This work aims to study and discuss the effects of the mechanical damage parameters on the induced conductive temperature, dynamic temperature, deformation, and stress fields in a thermoelastic solid sphere by using the diagonalization method for the first time. The governing equations of the mathematical model have been prepared by using the hyperbolic two-temperature heat conduction theory when the mechanical damage variable is included.
2. The Governing Equations
Consider a perfect conducting, isotropic, and thermoelastic spherical body that fills the region
. We use the spherical coordinates system
, where
denotes the radial co-ordinate,
denotes the co-latitude, and
indicates the longitude of a spherical coordinate system, respectively, as seen in
Figure 1. We assume the sum of the external forces is zero and that it is initially quiescent. Only when there are no latitudinal and longitudinal differences in the symmetry is the requirement fulfilled. All state functions will therefore be dependent on the radial distance
r and time
t.
Because of the spherical symmetry, the components of displacement take the form:
The essential equation of motion is
The constitutive equations with the damage mechanics variable are
The strain components are
and
defines the cubical dilatation and satisfies the relation
The heat conduction equation under the hyperbolic two-temperature theory takes the forms
and
is called the parameter of the hyperbolic two-temperature theory, and
.
We assume that
and
, where
is the conductive temperature increment while
is the dynamic temperature increment. Hence, Equations (4)–(7), (12), and (13) take the forms
Equation (14) can be modified to be in the form
To simplify the equations, we will use the following dimensionless variables [
5,
22]:
We then obtain
where
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
.
The primes have been deleted for simplicity.
The differential operator
is a singular operator when
, and this singularity could be removed by applying L’Hopital’s rule as follows [
23]:
We then acquire
and satisfy the boundary conditions
By using the forms in Equation (26) in Equations (20)–(22), we obtain the following equations:
The Laplace transform is applied as follows:
when the following zero initial conditions have been used:
Equations (20)–(25) then take the following forms:
where
.
Using Equation (36) and Equations (34) and (35), we obtain
where
,
,
.
Using Equation (42) and Equation (41), we obtain
where
.
3. The Method of Diagonalization
We can put Equations (42) and (43) into a matrix form as follows:
The system in (44) has been written as a homogenous system of first-order linear differential equations as follows [
24]:
where
, and
.
Matrix
A gives four independent linear eigenvectors; hence, we can obtain a matrix
V from the eigenvectors of the matrix
A such that
where
gives a diagonal matrix [
24].
If we use the matrix
in the system (45), then
We then obtain
where
provide the eigenvalues of Matrix
A (the roots of the characteristic equation)
where
,
,
, and
.
Because
W is a diagonal matrix, the system (47) will be uncoupled, making each differential equation have the form
. The solution of each of these linear equations is
. The solution of the system (47), in general, is then given by the following column vector [
24]:
Ultimately, the solution of the system (45) in a final form is
The matrix
V of Matrix
A takes the form
Substituting from Equations (49) and (51) into Equation (50), we obtain
By using the boundary conditions (27) and Equation (52), we obtain
To acquire the constants
, we can use the boundary conditions when
and consider that the surface of the sphere is loaded thermally as follows:
is the unit step function (Heaviside function), and is constant.
We assume the surface of the sphere to be connected to a rigid foundation which can prevent any displacement
. Thus, from Equation (40), the surface of the sphere has no volumetric deformation, which gives the following boundary condition:
Apply the Laplace transform on Equations (56) and (57), we have
and
Applying the boundary conditions (58) and (59) into Equations (54) and (55), we obtain the following linear algebraic system:
and
By solving the system in (60) and (61), we obtain
and .
Equations (40) and (63) will be used to obtain the displacement function as follows [
23]:
The singularity (64) can be resolved by using L’Hopital’s rule as follows:
We will obtain the average of the three principal stresses components by using Equations (37)–(39) as follows:
4. Numerical Results
To compute the functions of the conductive temperature increment, and dynamic temperature increment, strain, and average stress components in the time domain, the Riemann sum method of approximation will be used. Using this method, the inversions of the Laplace transforms can be calculated numerically by applying the following formula [
25]:
“” is the well-known imaginary number unit, while “Re” is known as the real part.
Several digital experiments have demonstrated that the value
corresponds to the relationship between the faster phase and convergence
[
25].
For the computational results, copper has been chosen as the thermoelastic material, so, the following values of the different physical constants will be used [
13]:
, , , , , , .
Thus, the dimensionless values of the parameters of the problem will be:
, , , , .
5. Discussion
The final numerical results of the conductive temperature increment, dynamic temperature increment, strain, displacement, and average stress functions have been illustrated in different two- and three-dimensional figures with a wide range of the dimensionless radial distance when and the value of the dimensionless value of time when .
Figure 2,
Figure 3,
Figure 4,
Figure 5 and
Figure 6 have been created for various values of the two-temperature parameter
and the mechanical damage parameter
. The value
is devoted to the usual L-S model of thermoelasticity with one-temperature; the value
represents the classical two-temperature model, while
represents the hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity model.
Figure 2 shows the conductive temperature increment distribution in which all of the curves start from the position
when
, which agrees with the thermal shock value as in the thermal boundary condition. The three curves have identical behavior with different values, where the conductive temperature increment distributions have the following order:
Figure 3 represents the dynamic temperature increment distributions, where the first curve
represents the one-temperature model, which starts from the position
with the value
. This value agrees with the thermal boundary condition, and the dynamic temperature increment has the following order:
Figure 4 represents the volumetric strain distributions in which all of the curves start from the position
with zero values, which agrees with the mechanical boundary condition. The three curves have identical behavior with different values. Each curve has a different peak point and takes the following order:
Figure 5 represents the displacement component distributions in which all of the curves begin from the position
from the zero value. All of the curves have identical behavior with different values, and each curve has a peak point that takes the following order:
Figure 6 shows the distributions of the average stress, where all the curves begin from the position
with different values. The three curves have identical behavior with different values. The values of the start points have the following order:
Figure 7,
Figure 8,
Figure 9,
Figure 10 and
Figure 11 have been prepared for different values of the damage mechanics parameter when
under the hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity model. The value
represents the undamaged case, while the values
represent two different damage cases.
Figure 7 and
Figure 8 represent how the mechanical damage parameter has no effect on the conductive and dynamic temperature increment.
Figure 9 shows that the volumetric strain distribution has a substantial impact on the mechanical damage variable. A rise in the mechanical damage value allows the absolute value of the volumetric strain to decrease.
Figure 10 indicates a significant influence on the displacement distribution of the mechanical damage component—a rise in the mechanical damage variable results in a reduction in the absolute displacement value.
Figure 11 indicates a significant influence on the average stress distribution of the mechanical damage variable. A rise in the value of the mechanical damage parameter leads to a decrease in average stress absolute value.
Figure 12,
Figure 13,
Figure 14,
Figure 15 and
Figure 16 represent the distributions of conductive temperature increment, dynamic temperature increment, volumetric strain, displacement, and average stress under the hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity model in three dimensions. The figures have been created for a wide range of dimensionless radi
and dimensionless time intervals
. We can see that the value of time has significant effects on all the studied functions. The mechanical and thermal waves propagate with finite or limited speeds under the hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity model, and increasing the time value helps the thermomechanical waves disappear faster.
6. Conclusions
The diagonalization method is used for the first time in this study to create a new model of a homogeneous, thermoelastic, and isotropic solid sphere subjected to mechanical damage. The fundamental equations were derived using the hyperbolic two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity theory while considering mechanical damage.
The one-temperature and hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity models generate thermomechanical waves with finite or limited propagation velocity, according to the computational results.
As a result, the hyperbolic two-temperature thermoelasticity model works well in the characterization of the thermodynamic behaviors of thermoelastic materials.
Furthermore, the two-temperature parameter and time have substantial effects on all of the functions tested, whereas the mechanical damage variable only has a substantial impact on the strain, displacement, and stress distributions.
The conductive and dynamical temperature distributions are unaffected by the mechanical damage variable.
The value of the conductive temperature increment based on the one-temperature model is greater than its value based on hyperbolic two-temperature model and its value based on the classical two-temperature model. The value of the dynamical temperature increment based on the classical two-temperature model is greater than its value based on the hyperbolic two-temperature model and its value based on the one-temperature model.
The absolute values of the peak points of the strain and displacement distributions based on the classical two-temperature model is greater than its values based on the hyperbolic two-temperature model and its value based on the one-temperature model.